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Category Archives: News

BBM INVITED BACK TO THE BREAKY BOTTOM AND OFF THE LINE VINEYARD PROJECTS

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23/11/2018

/ BBM Architects

BBM have recently had the pleasure to be invited to re-visit some of our vineyard projects, including the well established Breaky Bottom Vineyard in Rodmell near Lewes and the newly created Off the Line Vineyard in Hellinglly, East Sussex. We visited Breaky Bottom during the bumper 2018 season harvest, to see the processes first hand. This season we also had an opportunity to visit the newly completed BBM’s purposed-designed winery building at Off the Line Vineyard, which had just processed the grapes for the first time.

Visiting projects after completion allows us to carry out post occupancy evaluation (POE), which is a crucial part of what we do as architects as it helps determine the positive and negative aspects of completed design work.

To find out more about these projects follow the links bellow:

Off the Line Vineyard project page, here

Breaky Bottom project page, here

You can also visit both of vineyards websites by clicking here or here.

News / architecture, BBM Projects, BBM Sustainable Design, Breaky Bottom, east sussex vineyard, East Sussex wine, Off the Line Vineyard, POE visit, re-visit, vineyard, winery architecture

BBC NEWS ARTICLE

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22/11/2018

/ BBM Architects
Climate change: Prince launches ‘Waste to Wealth’ summit

The ‘Waste to Wealth’ summit was held in London today, bringing together over 200 leaders including the Prince of Wales and the Environment Secretary Michael Gove along with members of government, businesses, volunteers and university groups from all over the country. The summit targeted reducing avoidable waste by 2030 and to double the nation’s resource productivity.

According to BBC News One of the most remarkable events of the summit was a speech given by Prince Charles in which he stated:”Making goods (like polyester duvets) uses energy and releases greenhouses gases – and the Prince and the politician both say we can’t tackle climate change unless we use materials more intelligently.”

The University of Brighton’s Waste House, built from waste material and using innovative waste materials as insulation has been further acknowledged in the article.

“The Waste House is almost entirely made from thrown away materials most of which were heading for landfill or incineration. Materials used in the construction include toothbrushes, denim jeans, dvd cases, floppy discs, carpet tiles and construction waste. These materials have now been joined by used duvets from The University of Brighton’s halls of residence which are being used as insulation. Whilst oyster shells from the critically acclaimed English’s oyster bar have been mixed with waste aggregates from a neighbouring building site (Preston Barracks) to form wall tiles.”

On the subject of managing resources and reducing avoidable waste, Duncan Baker-Brown – Director of BBM and the project architect of the Waste House, told BBC News: “You pay 20% VAT to refurbish a building, but zero VAT to demolish and rebuild. There is a tax incentive to knock buildings down, which is frankly insane.”

The full article can be found here.

Architect Duncan Baker-Brown with wall tiles made from crushed waste oyster shells

 

News / BBC, BBM Sustainable Design, circular economy, duncan baker-brown, duvets, Local Works Studio, Oyster shell tiles, re-use, Research, Sustainable architecture, sustainable materials, The Waste House, Waste to wealth summit

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

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19/11/2018

/ BBM Architects
A revamp for The University of Brighton’s Waste House

The Brighton Waste House project page

Supported by: INTERREG VA France (Channel) England


The award winning University of Brighton’s Waste House is currently undergoing an innovative makeover.

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSEIn line with Duncan’s ongoing research project with Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB&WRC) and INTERREG VA France (Channel) England The Waste House has incorporated new recycled and reused materials into the building fabric.

Since the recent success and publicity of David Attenborough’s BBC series Blue Planet II The Waste House has gained further recognition.

The Waste House is almost entirely made from thrown away materials most of which were heading for landfill or incineration. Materials used in the construction include toothbrushes, denim jeans, dvd cases, floppy discs, carpet tiles and construction waste. These materials have now been joined by used duvets from The University of Brighton’s halls of residence which are being used as insulation. Whilst oyster shells from the critically acclaimed English’s oyster bar have been mixed with waste aggregates from a neighbouring building site (Preston Barracks) to form wall tiles.

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

Duncan recently spoke about the buildings modifications:

“It is great to see the Waste House continuing to break new ground four years after it was first completed. Duvets and oyster shells are not currently widely recycled yet, like so many of the other materials we have used, are perfectly suited to alternative uses. We will now be testing how they perform so that we can demonstrate to others the huge potential.”

Further reading: The University of Brighton’s Architecture and Interior Architecture blog.

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

News / architecture, BBM Projects, biobased materials, brighton, coating, duvets, Green Architecture, INTERREG SB&WR, Local Works Studio, Materials, oysters, re-use, Recycle, Recycling, SB&WRC project, sustainability, sustainable innovation, The Waste House, University Of Brighton

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE

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19/10/2018

/ BBM Architects
The world is their oyster

The partners at Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB&WRC) research project have continued to make significant progress towards the design and manufacture of the first insulation prototypes made from biobased and recycled materials. The University of Brighton is one of the English partners of the SB&WRC project. Their deep involvement in alternative building technologies has led to impressive experiments and results that continue to inspire researchers and practitioners.

The project is supported by the INTERREG VA France (Channel) England programme and receives financial support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Duncan, Dr Ryan Woodard, Nick Gant of Community 21, Dr. Ryan Southall and Ben Bosence of Local Works Studio are looking at the potentials of sourcing waste material flows local to construction sites to provide material for insulation and rain screen cladding of social housing developments.

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE
Over 7 million tonnes of mollusc shells are discarded by the seafood industry every year. These shells consist of over 90% calcium carbonate. Crushed shells can reduce soil acidity in agriculture or be fed to egg-laying hens as a calcium supplement. However calcium carbonate is also a common ingredient in the production of cement that is one of the largest sources of harmful CO2 emissions. Currently the majority of the cement industry’s calcium carbonate is coming from ecologically harmful and unsustainable limestone mining.

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE
One of the projects has the University of Brighton team partnering with restaurants recycling oyster shells into beautiful tiles suitable to hang on the outside of buildings. One restaurant, ‘English’s of Brighton’, who throw away over 50,000 oyster shells annually, have donated shells to the project. Local Works Studio fire some shells to 900°C to create ‘quick lime’ and mix it with unfired crushed oyster shells forming an aggregate. Pressing the mixture into silicone castes there is a natural chemical reaction when water is added to the mix creating some heat. This hydraulic reaction is similar to concrete ‘curing’. After about 3 weeks the tiles are hard enough to hang on a building. Ben from Local Works states that “We’re working on 50kg of oyster per m2 of hung tile. Traditional clay tiles are 78kg/m2.” So not only we are working with waste material, but the manufacturing process is more efficient that the current system.

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE
To read the full article click here.
Further details on the projects earlier research can be found here.

News / architecture, BBM Projects, circular economy, Closed loop systems, Community 21, DBB, duncan baker-brown, east sussex, eco, ERDF, Green, Green Architecture, Interreg, lewes, Local Works Studio, re-use, Recycle, Recycling, riba, SB&WRC, sustainability, sustainable design, University Of Brighton

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY

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10/10/2018

/ BBM Architects
The Waste House listed as a sustainability success story

Website: Edie.net

Project Page: The Waste House, Grand Parade, University of Brighton

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY
The award winning Waste House has received further press this week from the popular sustainability website Edie.net. As part of our their Mission Possible campaign, this week they have produced a weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe. The full article can be read here.

The Brighton Waste House is the first permanent ‘carbon negative’ public building in Europe to be constructed from approximately 90% waste, surplus material & discarded plastic gathered from the construction and other industries, as well as our homes. It has Full Planning & Building Regulations Approvals. It tries to prove “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place!”

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY
Now an open design research studio, run in partnership with our colleagues delivering the Sustainable Design MA on campus who us it as their teaching studio for two days a week, the Brighton Waste House is be available to schools, colleges and community groups for ‘green’ themed events and any interested parties can join in with sustainable design workshops and events curated by designers, artists, makers, builders, scientists writers-in-residence, whoever is interested.

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY

News / architecture, BBM Projects, brighton, east sussex, eco, energy efficiency, Green, Green Architecture, lewes, Recycling, reduced carbon footprint, riba, SDNP, sussex, sustainability, sustainable design, sustainable innovation, University Of Brighton

BBM SUPPORT MAKE LEWES FESTIVAL 2018

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20/09/2018

/ BBM Architects
BBM are proud to support the Make Lewes Festival 2018

The events are curated and organised by a Lewes-based community organisation that promotes the exchange of knowledge in the fields of Making, Architecture, Design & Sustainability.


In particular BBM are helping to sponsor: 
FutureScoping – On the future of Lewes’s cultural infrastructure provision: What do we want? What does Lewes need?
Sunday September 30th, 13.30 – 17.30, Depot Cinema, Pinwell Rd, BN7 2JS map
Tickets – £6.50 Concessions – £4.50
Tickets will be available soon on the Depot website

Featuring:
John Burrell, director Burrell Foley Fischer Architects, the architects of Lewes Depot
Alison Grant, founder and director of Fitzroy House –  Lewes’s latest cultural hub
Frances Hollis WorkHome advocate and researcher on this new ‘beyond LiveWork’ housing approach
Piers Taylor, Invisible Studio experimental architect, most recently on the participatory artists and makers Watchett Arts Hub
Jess Steele, director Jericho Road, social and community development, led Hastings Pier community organisation
Further speakers to be announced

FurureScoping is part of Make Lewes Festival 2018
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org

News / architecture, east sussex, eco, Green, Green Architecture, lewes, Lewes Depot Cinema, Make Lewes Festival 2018, Making Lewes 2018, riba, SDNP, sustainability, sustainable design, sustainable innovation

DUNCAN TO SPEAK AT UNMAKING WASTE 2018

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20/09/2018

/ BBM Architects
Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use

When: Conference runs from 20th-23rd September 2018

Duncan will be speaking on Friday 21st September at 15:45

Registration link

Location: University of South Australia (UniSA) Hawke Building, UniSA West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000

Full details


This Friday Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “The Unmaking Waste 2018” international conference in Adelaide. The conference will be hosted by the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the University of South Australia.

“Building upon the achievements of our first conference, Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place (May 2015), Unmaking Waste 2018 will be focused on the problem of consumption itself, and its role in increasing emissions, resource depletion and environmental degradation. The following themes will be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective:

  1. Eco-Design and Development:
    Designing, defining and managing objects, buildings, precincts and systems to reduce resource and energy use, and thus increase environmental and human well-being.
  2. Sustainable Consumption:
    Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
  3. Waste Minimization:
    Reducing waste and pollution at all scales, in all domains and activities, and in all places, and transforming this waste and pollution into states of greater value for reuse.
  4. Circular Economy:
    Optimizing social, material and economic relations and the value of goods and services to further the goals of the Circular Economy, including product and environment life-extension, reuse and repair.”

Further details on the event can be found here.

News / architecture, bbm talks, circular economy, Closed loop systems, DBB, duncan baker-brown, east sussex, eco, energy efficiency, Green, Green Architecture, lewes, re-use, Recycle, Recycling, reduced carbon footprint, riba, sustainability, sustainable design, The Circular Economy, The Re-Use Atlas

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